52 Asylum Quotes for You to Enjoy

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. Friedrich Nietzsche

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The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully. Deepak Chopra

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My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either. Christopher Hitchens

South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum. James L. Petigru

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There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum. Carl Jung

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The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. Havelock Ellis

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My mother's face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday. A daughter in an asylum! I had done that to her. Still, she had obviously decided to forgive me. Sylvia Plath

I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum. Robert De Niro

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I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat. Antonin Artaud

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To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff. D. B. Sweeney

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All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate. Nellie Bly

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All I'm doing is rearranging the curtains in the insane asylum. Wes Craven

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I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word. A. E. Housman

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Ecuador has never stated flatly that it would give asylum to Edward Snowden. Barton Gellman

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Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith. Bill Shuster

My heart goes out to children around the world who face terrible poverty. But the United States cannot give asylum to every child in that situation. It would not be sustainable. But we should care for those who are truly in danger. Dan Lipinski

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